I was contacted by a recruiter via LinkedIn for opportunities at Cruise Automation. After a discussion with the recruiter, we decided to go forward with Full Stack position. Phone screen (Full stack position): The interviewer was nice and professional. First went over my background and then a coding question on coderpad. Question was 2sum on leetcode. Recruiter contacted me a few days later that I am invited onsite for a full loop. But, without telling me, they changed the role from Full Stack to Backend Engineer. I was not aware of this change until the day before but it was too late to do anything about it at that point. Onsite (Backend Engineer - Mapping team): Please note the whole time the meeting room I was doing the interviews in had a factory/warehouse next door which was very noisy. Imagine hearing a horn being sounded when you are writing a test. That was very distracting. I told the recruiter about this during the wrap up interview and she dismissed it as "I am sure you did fine". First interviewer went over my background and what I enjoyed working on. He then asked me a coding question: Given a path (width x length) and cameras of various radius, go through the path while avoiding being seen by the cameras. I got most of the code done but couldn't part I couldn't finish in time. He was nice and pleasent to talk to but he smelled of sweat and as we were doing whiteboard coding, the smell was very distracting and offputting. Second interviewer went over my background. He asked me a design question: Design an LRU. He then asked me to talk about implementing it in a distributed system. Third interviwer was the manager. He asked me behavioral quesitons. - What project are you proud of and what were the challenges with it. How did you prioritize work in the project. - Have you had a disagreement with a coworker? - What do you do if you disagree with your manager? - Describe a time when you were wrong? Fourth interviewer was the bar raiser. He literally spent 40 mins (out of an hour) to go over my linked in profile (that he had printed out). He didn't even have my resume. He was going over my linkedin profile which has a lot less information than my LinkedIn profile. He was very interested in the locations where I worked. He went over my experience line by line and asked me explain everything. This was odd because he said "we will go over your experience for a few minutes and then do a coding question for rest of the time". He finally gave me a coding question with about 15 mins left in the interview: Unique Paths III from leetcode (which is a Hard question). The whole interview was very bizzare and felt like it was to set me up for failure. Fifth interview was another hiring manager over video chat. Informal discussion about the team. Sixth interview was wrap up with recruiter. Overall: People were nice but the interviewers were inexperienced and didn't know how to move the interview along and didn't keep track of time. Cruise has a long way to go when it comes to conducting interviews. The interviewers seemed like they wanted to collaborate while I was coding but they mostly ended up being a distraction and a few times confused me more than helped me.